2004-05 Grand Prize Poster by 12-yr-old Cheuk Tat Li pictured at right. Cheuk Tat Li was sponsored by the Hong Kong Metropolitan Lions Club.

It’s that time of year again, when the Lions Club International encourages pre-teens to express their feelings about international peace through posters. If you know that you have a Lions Club in your community, find out whether they’re active with this project. If not, encourage them to get neighborhood teens to participate!

“Celebrate Peace” is the theme for the 2006-07 Peace Poster Contest. Lions clubs can sponsor the program in their community for children in local schools or organized, sponsored youth groups. Students, ages 11, 12 or 13 on November 15, 2006, are eligible to participate. Through the contest, students are encouraged to visually depict their interpretation of the contest’s theme. Lions clubs must purchase a kit for each contest sponsored. The contest must be sponsored by a Lions club, so you’ll need to search for a Lions Club in the country where you reside (Here’s a link to Lions Australia, Multiple District 401, for example).